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You've probably heard about actors -- possibly even here, as we've covered a number of Java-based actor implementations on the Java zone in the past few years. With the advent of functional languages such as Scala and Groovy , as well as Java-based implementation libraries and frameworks, actors, which provide an increasingly popular and necessary alternative to traditional Java concurrency, have come into their own on the Java platform. If your interest is piqued enough to explore a little further, you're in luck. First, read this new article... [More]

Before we parted ways in 2010, there was a flurry of activity on the Java zone, including two new podcasts with some of the more prominent thinkers in the Java community: Sacha Labourey and Venkat Subramaniam. If you haven't had a chance, you'll want to listen now .
We also published several articles of note in December, including Solving the Expression Problem with Clojure 2.1 by Stuart Sierra, one of the great minds at Relevance, and Java concurrency bug patterns for multicore systems by three engineers involved in research and... [More]

By now, you've probably read Mark Reinhold's blog post on the two possible options that Oracle is considering for JDK 7. Judging from the comments (and there are a lot, so kudos to Oracle for soliciting community feedback), and despite the incremental updates that will come with the more desirable Plan B, disappointment prevails. It's been a long wait, but with JavaOne fast approaching, an announcement of some variety was inevitable. From a Java zone perspective, this change in direction means that I will likely focus less on scheduled feature... [More]